at least you're not facing stupid power limit issues. I have it set at 200W in BIOS but it always get changed to 66W for PL1 and 160W for PL2, its driving me up the wall. It happens randomly too. Never faced this issue on older BIOS.

Woah! That's absolutely nuts! Is that is non-ac run with tjmax offset? As that would be way better than adding in a 4th fan.

Do you have any pictures of how you modded it or how it sits?

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Na, already modded the heatsinks back when the P870TM1 was new and never made any pictures. But the bottom cover can no longer make the click-in or it would be too tight.

That CB15 run is also ancient, usually just don't post that stuff. I didn't touch the thermal limits, but IIRC it would start to thermal throttle if CB15 would be a slightly longer bench. It runs 3DMark at 5.1Ghz (which has a lot lower CPU load) and is also very close to thermal throttle at the end of the combined load test (full FAN no AC).

Wonder how Clevo intends to keep 10 cores cool in the smaller LGA 1200 chassey while a 200W~ GPU is active at the same time (at least they finally woke up on the TGP part). Maybe that larger FAN....

That's definitely a successful mod, I would say. A unified VC mod. Comparing to my own experience, this does in fact soak quite a bit of heat when compared to stock TM1/9900k combo, even with an extra fan. 4.9G being the upper limit for CR15 for me.

Na, already modded the heatsinks back when the P870TM1 was new and never made any pictures. But the bottom cover can no longer make the click-in or it would be too tight.

That CB15 run is also ancient, usually just don't post that stuff. I didn't touch the thermal limits, but IIRC it would start to thermal throttle if CB15 would be a slightly longer bench. It runs 3DMark at 5.1Ghz (which has a lot lower CPU load) and is also very close to thermal throttle at the end of the combined load test (full FAN no AC).

Wonder how Clevo intends to keep 10 cores cool in the smaller LGA 1200 chassey while a 200W~ GPU is active at the same time (at least they finally woke up on the TGP part). Maybe that larger FAN....

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Fin area, airflow or more efficient heat transportation are your only options.